Aliona Yurtsevich is an artist, composer and director born in Belarus. For our podcast series Curious Ears, she went back to her roots to paint a musical portrait of the contemporary music scene of Belarus. Listen to pt. 2: https://soundcloud.com/user-641373079/belarusian-suit-sounding-souls-of-belarus-pt-2 BELARUSIAN SUIT: “I listen, therefore I am...” (2021) narrated collage-composition, voice, text: Aliona Yurtsevich [music]: Ales Tsurko, Transliaciya No.2 (Transliaciya, 2016) https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/track/no-2 General list of Belarusian composers and musicians: Yegor Zabelov: NITI 2020 https://soundcloud.com/yegor-zabelov-1/sets/yegor-zabelov-niti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hEeINKUhak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFio1vLn7c8 Ales Tsurko: http://preservedsound.com/ales-tsurko-the-hate.html https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/transliaciya https://soundcloud.com/ales_tsurko Viktar Siamashka & Co.: https://viktar-siamashka-and-company.bandcamp.com/album/ab-oha https://bandcamp.com/search?q=siamashka%2B%26%2Bnarushevich Knyaz Mishkin: https://hazenetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/my-small-yellow-house https://34mag.net/piarshak/news/umer-leonid-narushevich https://soundcloud.com/leonid-narushevich/impro-orq-igra-rakov-angar-0708-2016 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PduKPYNE8hs&t=122s Viktar Siamashka, Lavon Naushevich: https://viktar-siamashka-and-company.bandcamp.com/album/pra-svajo MIO (Minsk Improvising Orchestra): https://soundcloud.com/minskimprovisersorchestra Masque Noir: https://masquenoir.bandcamp.com/releases MAS: electronic improvisation trio https://masmusic6.bandcamp.com/releases Society for Development of New Music (MINSK): https://sdnm.bandcamp.com/album/belarus-modern-orchestra-live Konstantsin Yaskou: https://sdnm.bandcamp.com/album/ludus-mobilis Vyacheslav Kuznetsov “Piano-Pianissimo”: https://www.jamendo.com/track/893136/vyacheslav-kuznetsov-piano-pianissimo Olga Podhajska “Secretaties”: https://www.jamendo.com/track/893130/olga-podhajska-secretaries Alexander Litvinovsky: https://www.jamendo.com/track/893137/alexander-litvinovsky-consort-lessons-passamezzo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmqZ5wo5pE Geysers On Enceladus (Olga Shaidullina, Drugoj Orkestr): https://www.jamendo.com/track/1081789/geysers-on-enceladus-olga-shaidullina-drugoi-orkestr Vitali Harmash: discography http://foundamental.net/en/label/idex/ White Elephant: https://ahalaimahalai.bandcamp.com/album/white-elephant Andrei Antara: (ambient, electronics, flutes) https://soundcloud.com/blowing_echo TAM: https://soundcloud.com/vam_tuda Baisan & Yasinski: https://baisan8yasinski.bandcamp.com/album/baranavi-y-centra-nyja Kolorit Kulmana: https://koloritkulmana.bandcamp.com/ JJ.OK (electronic ambient, processed guitar) https://jjok.bandcamp.com/album/states-and-emotions Golova & Roomdark : Show https://hazenetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/golova-roomdark-snow A. A.: https://soundcloud.com/apollinaria_a/butoh https://soundcloud.com/antina-crevasse/metal-flowerfeatmench-rigo https://youtube.com/channel/UCU0d-f47UNepAzK6TWq3Spw Aleksey Vorsoba: PORT MONE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo8tPg5FqA8 http://portmonetrio.com/page2035935.html Sergey Pukst: https://pukst.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/user4444515/sets/vviuswy8bxv6 https://soundcloud.com/mapletree/track https://34audio.bandcamp.com/album/--15 Music for Film (M. Deren & A. Hamid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imtc70fi10Q&t=284s TROIZA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7uPV-vIB0 | https://www.last.fm/music/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%96%D1%86%D0%B0 SHUMA: http://www.shuma.by/en/shuma-global-meditation https://soundcloud.com/shuma-by Re1ikt: https://soundcloud.com/relikt_belarus | https://relikt-belarus.bandcamp.com/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4mClnh_wM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYbt2_4o9tE NIZKIZ: https://soundcloud.com/nizkiz RECORD LABELS: http://foundamental.net | https://hazenetlabel.bandcamp.com | https://34mag.net/piarshak